In this study I am scrutinizing the politics of dress and especially the emergence of male bourgeois dress in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. Beginning with the official implementation of new dress ...

The present study uses methods of everyday history and the history of mentalities to examine the two-volume travel account written by Englishman Thomas Hodgskin who right after the Vienna Congress travelled on foot across ...

The efforts to renew the church structures, which began in the early sixteenth century, had serious consequences, for, at the end of the twentieth century, two different confessions emerged. Without question, this religious ...

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach conducted an extensive academic correspondence, which included contacts on a number of different continents. This enabled Blumenbach to obtain knowledge and objects, which influenced and shaped ...

The design of medieval chalices is characterised by continuous change. The present study examines the formal design and figural decoration of middle-european chalices from 1200-1525. On the basis of 380 figural decorated ...